Egg-carton filler



Aug. 31 1926. 1,598,318

W. A. SCHURMANN GG CARTON FILLER Filed June 20, 1923 Sold.

Patentecl Aug. 31, 1926.

1,598318 PATENT or=rrns.

wurm smrss WILLIAM A. SCHU'R1VIANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR '10 W. A. SCHURIVJIANN & CO. INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLII\TOIS, A GORPORATION OS? 1ILLI1IOIS.

EGGr-CAR'ION FILIQER.

Application filed Inne 20, 1923. Serial N0. 646,516.

Tl1is invention relates to containers or roceptacles, and more partioularly to those omployed to hold eggs, such as the egg cartons and fillers in whioh eggs are ordinarily A. carton and filler 01: this character ordinarily holds a dozen eggs, and is of predetormined or standard size. The oartons when filled a1e packed closely together and shipped in a way that tends t0 place a limit on the size of the carton.

Generally stated, the objectof the invention is to provide an improved const-ruc tion and arrangexnent of the filler, whereby somewhat larger compartments or cells are provicled for the eggs, without increasing tho size of the carton or box in which the filler and eggs are enolosed.

lt is also an object 130 provide certain details and teatures o1 construction and combinations tending to increase the general eflioiency and the desirability of an egg car= ton and filler of this particular character.

T0 these and other useful ends theinvention consists in the matters hereinafter sei: forth and olaimed and shown in tl1e accompanying drawings, in which,-

Fig. 1 is a plan of an egg carton and filler therefor, e1nbodying the principles of the invention, showing the cover and its flap in open position and extended from the back of the box in the plane of the top thereof.

Fig. 2 .is a horizontal and longitudinal section 011 line 22 in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 33 in Fig. 1 showing the cover and flap in closed position.

Fig. 4 is a si1nilar transverse seotion 011 line 44 in Fig. l.

As thus illustrated, the invention comprises an oblong, rectangular box or carton 1 of .suitable height and length and width, having its rear Wall provided with a swing ing cover 2 having a flap 3 f0r insertion in th b0x when the cover is closed. The box or carton may be constructed o1 formed in any suitable 01 desired manner, but the flap 3 is preferably long enough to rest upon the bottom 0'f the box When the cover is closed.

The filler comprises two longitudinal Walls 4 and 5 which are 01 less height than the hox, which are spaced apart in the manner shown, whereby the space between theske two Walls is at the center of the box. The Walls 4 and 5 are conneoted together by the two transverse Walls 6, Which are of the same height as the Walls 4 and 5 and which are interlockod therewith in the manner shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings. As th exact forn1 of the interlock is not i1nportant, the illustration and the general desoription thereof Will be suflioient. The three transverse Walls 7 alternate with the Walls 6, in

the 1nanner shown, and vare of the sa1ne twelve in number, are each somewhat larger than heretofore, and in each case the cell 01 compartment is forrned in part by the outer Wall or Walls of the box. Ordinarily, in the connnon for1n 01 egg filler, there am threo longitudinal Walls and seVen transverse Walls, so that air spaces are provided all around between the filler and the sides and ends of the box; but with the improved (2011- struction herein shown and desoribed, only tWo longitudinal Walls are employed f'or the filler, and live transverse Walls, and the egg cells are formed in part by the Walls o1 the box or carton itself. Thus a oonsideralole saving in 1naterial is aoco1nplished, and the reduction in height of the Walls 4 and 5 and 6 contributes further t0 the economy 01 reduct-ion in the uso 01: materials.

Oversized eggs are becoming more comn1on, and the enlarge1nent of the cells 0f the filler, in the Inanner explained, takes care of the oversized eggs without in any way neoessitating an onlargoment of tho box 01 carton itself, for, as shown, the latter is of exactly the sahne size as those previously einployed. Of course, in aotual practice, the cartoh and filler are somewhat larger than they are shown in the drawings. In practice, these egg cartons or boxes are approximately three and three-quarters inches in width, one and a quarter inch in height and about ten inches or a little over long, these being approximately the standard dimensions for the ordinary egg b0x or carton in which eggs are sold t-o the oonsulner by the groceries or retail dealers. But with the construction shown and described, the egg cells are somewhat larger than heretofore. 

